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University of Colorado Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder Dept. of History
Hellems Building
1550 Central Campus Mall , UCB 234
Boulder, CO 80309-0234
Phone: 303.492.6683
Fax: 303.492.1868
Email: history@colorado.edu
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/history/


With 28 full-time faculty covering a range of fields from the colonial and modern Americas to African, Asian, and European studies, the CU Boulder History Department encourages students with a passion for learning and an interest in the past to check out one of the many courses offered every semester.


Chair: Phoebe S. K. Young
Director of Graduate Studies: Myles Osborne
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Matthew Gerber
Degrees Offered: BA,MA,PHD
Academic Year System: SEM
Areas of Specialization: medieval/early modern/modern Europe, US diplomatic/environmental/intellectual/cultural, US West, Native American, Japan/China/India/Southeast Asia, imperialism/nationalism/decolonization
Undergraduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $35456
   Out-of-state: $66500
Graduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $15054
   Out-of-state: $38580
Other Tuition:
    International undergraduate: $68,664

Enrollment 2025-2026:
Undergraduate Majors: 329
Students in Program: 0
New Graduate Students: 9
Full-time Graduate Students: 33
Part-time Graduate Students: 0
Degrees in History: 0 AA 81 BA 0 BS 3 MA 0 MS 2 PhD 57 Minors
Students in Undergrad. Courses: 4867
Students in Undergrad. Intro Courses: 2986
% of Online-Only Courses: 9
Undergraduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://www.colorado.edu/admissions
   Financial Aid: https://www.colorado.edu/admissions/cost-finances
Graduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/history
   Financial Aid: https://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/graduate-student-funding

Areas of Specialization: medieval/early modern/modern Europe, US diplomatic/environmental/intellectual/cultural, US West, Native American, Japan/China/India/Southeast Asia, imperialism/nationalism/decolonization

Not applicable


Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. The Department of History offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Please see our website (https://www.colorado.edu/history/graduate-studies) for complete program and contact information.

B. Special Programs. Center for British and Irish Studies, https://www.colorado.edu/center/british-irish-studies/; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, https://www.medieval.eu/center-medieval-early-modern-studies/; Jewish Studies and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, http://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/, Center of the American West, https://www.colorado.edu/center/west/ ; the Museum Studies Program: https://catalog.colorado.edu/graduate/colleges-schools/arts-sciences/programs-study/museum-field-studies/museology-graduate-certificate/; and the Western History Collections at Norlin Library.

C. Financial Aid. The Department makes every effort to recruit top applicants to its PhD program. In the 2026-2027 admission cycle, 100% of admitted PhD applicants received offers of financial support. The Department employs 25-30 graduate students per semester as teaching assistants and/or GPTIs. ABD doctoral students are eligible to hold Graduate Part-Time Instructor (GPTI) positions. These positions provide teaching experience and involve complete responsibility for one or more sections of an undergraduate course. Both T.A. and GPTI positions provide a stipend and tuition remission. PhD graduate students are eligible to apply for campus wide dissertation fellowships.

D. Degree Requirements. A minimum of 45 semester hours of post-baccalaureate course work at the 5000 level or above is required for the degree, including a minimum of six hours of seminar work at the 7000 level. With the approval of a candidate's advisor, up to 9 hours of prior graduate work in history, whether completed at the University of Colorado or elsewhere, may be transferred into the PhD program. A comprehensive examination, consisting of the composition, compilation, and oral defense of a student specific portfolio of scholarly work must be successfully completed before the candidate advances to the dissertation. Please see our website (www.colorado.edu/history) for complete information on the PhD comprehensive examination.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2025-2026:
PhD students currently enrolled: 27
PhD applications received: 68
New PhD students: 5
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 89
% of students receiving stipends: 89


Wood, Peter H. (PHD, Harvard, 1972; ; adj. prof.) African American, ethnohistory, US South; peter.wood@colorado.edu
Andrews, Thomas G. (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 2003; ; prof.) US since 1865, environmental; thomas.andrews@colorado.edu
Ciarlo, David M. (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 2003; ; assoc. prof.) modern Germany; david.ciarlo@colorado.edu
Dauverd, Celine (PHD, UCLA, 2007; ; prof.) early modern Europe, Mediterranean; celine.dauverd@colorado.edu
Gautam, Sanjay (PHD, Chicago, 2005; ; assoc. prof.) South Asia; sanjay.gautam@colorado.edu
Gerber, Matthew Dean (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2004; ; assoc. prof. and dir., undergrad. studies) early modern Europe, France, family; matthew.gerber@colorado.edu
Hammer, Paul E. J. (PHD, Selwyn Coll., Cambridge, 1991; ; prof.) early modern England; paul.hammer@colorado.edu
Hutchinson, Erin Marija (PHD, Harvard, 2019; ; asst. prof.) Soviet Union, Russia, modern Europe; hutchinson@colorado.edu
Kim, Kwangmin (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2008; ; assoc. prof.) China, East Asia; kwangmin.kim@colorado.edu
Kingsberg Kadia, Miriam (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2009; ; prof.) Japan, China, political economy; miriam.kingsberg@colorado.edu
Lawrence, Ashleigh (PHD, Rutgers, 2019; ; asst. prof.) US Civil War, African American; Ashleigh.Lawrence@colorado.edu
Lim, Sungyun (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2011; ; assoc. prof.) modern Japan, Korea, family and gender; sungyun.lim@colorado.edu
Limerick, Patricia Nelson (PHD, Yale, 1980; ; prof.) American West; patricia.limerick@colorado.edu
Lovejoy, Henry B. (PHD, California, Los Angeles, 2012; ; assoc. prof.) West Africa, African diaspora, Atlantic world; hlovejoy@colorado.edu
Mendoza Gutierrez, Natalie (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2016; ; asst. prof.) history pedagogy, US Latinx; natalie.mendozagutierrez@colorado.edu
Mukherjee, Mithi (PHD, Chicago, 2001; ; assoc. prof.) South Asia; mukherjm@colorado.edu
Osborne, Myles Gregory (PHD, Harvard, 2008; ; assoc. prof. and dir., grad. studies) sub-Saharan Africa; myles.osborne@colorado.edu
Ramage, Noah I. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2024; ; asst. prof. and Driskill Prof. of Western History) Native American, US, Civil War, US West;
Sachs, Honor R. (PHD, Wisconsin, Madison, 2006; ; assoc. prof.) early America, slavery, gender, law; Honor.Sachs@colorado.edu
Sutter, Paul S. (PHD, Kansas, 1997; ; prof.) US, environmental, science and technology; paul.sutter@colorado.edu
Wei, William (PHD, Michigan, 1978; ; prof.) China, Asian American; william.wei@colorado.edu
Weston, Timothy B. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1995; ; assoc. prof.) China, intellectual; timothy.b.weston@colorado.edu
Willis, John M. (PHD, NYU, 2007; ; assoc. prof.) Middle East; jwillis@colorado.edu
Wood, Tony (PHD, NYU, 2020; ; asst. prof.) modern Latin America, transnational; Tony.Wood@colorado.edu
Yonemoto, Marcia A. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1995; ; prof.) Japan, cultural, gender; yonemoto@colorado.edu
Young, Phoebe S. K. (PHD, California, San Diego, 1999; ; prof. and chair) US since 1877, US women, Mexico; phoebe.young@colorado.edu
Zeiler, Thomas W. (PHD, Massachusetts Amherst, 1989; ; prof.) US diplomatic, recent US; thomas.zeiler@colorado.edu
Chester, Lucy (PHD, Yale, 2002; ; assoc. prof.; International Affairs) South Asia, British Empire; chester@colorado.edu
Kalisman, Hilary Falb (PHD, California, Berkeley, 2015; ; assoc. prof.; Jewish Studies) Israel/Palestine, broader Middle East, education, colonialism, state and nation; Hilary.Kalisman@colorado.edu
Pegelow Kaplan, Thomas (PHD, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2004; ; prof. and Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies; Jewish Studies) modern Europe, Holocaust; Thomas.Pegelow-Kaplan@colorado.edu
Detch, Andrew Ross (PHD, Colorado Boulder, 2018; ; asst. teaching prof.) early America, modern US, early modern Britain, Ireland, Atlantic world; Andrew.Detch@Colorado.edu
Paradis, David H. (PHD, Emory, 1998; ; teaching prof.) medieval, England, early modern Europe; david.paradis@colorado.edu
Anderson, Virginia D. (PHD, Harvard, 1984; ; prof. emeritus) colonial America; virginia.anderson@colorado.edu
Anderson, Fred (PHD, Harvard, 1981; ; prof. emeritus) American Revolution, early national; fred.anderson@colorado.edu
Chambers, Lee (PHD, Michigan, 1977; ; prof. emeritus) American women, 19th-century social and cultural; chambers@colorado.edu
Engel, Barbara A. (PHD, Columbia, 1974; ; dist. prof. emeritus) Russia, European women, Soviet Union; barbara.engel@colorado.edu
Fenn, Elizabeth (PHD, Yale, 1999; ; dist. prof. emeritus) pre-1865 US, Native Americans; elizabeth.fenn@colorado.edu
Ferry, Robert J. (PHD, Minnesota, 1980; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) Latin America; robert.ferry@colorado.edu
Gutmann, Myron P. (PHD, Princeton, 1976; ; prof. emeritus; Inst. of Behavioral Science) Europe, American West demographic and environmental; myron.gutmann@colorado.edu
Hanna, Martha T. (PHD, Georgetown, 1989; ; prof. emeritus) modern France; martha.hanna@colorado.edu
Hohlfelder, Bob (PHD, Indiana, 1966; ; prof. emeritus) ancient, early Byzantine; robert.hohlfelder@colorado.edu
Jankowski, James P. (PHD, Michigan, 1967; ; prof. emeritus) Middle East; jankowsk@colorado.edu
Kent, Susan Kingsley (PHD, Brandeis, 1984; ; prof. emeritus) 19th- and 20th-century Britain, Europe, gender; susan.kent@colorado.edu
Main, Gloria L. (PHD, Columbia, 1972; ; prof. emeritus) colonial America; gloria.main@colorado.edu
Mann, Ralph E. (PHD, Stanford, 1970; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) US Civil War, Appalachia, mining, US social; ralph.mann@colorado.edu
McIntosh, Marjorie K. (PHD, Harvard, 1967; ; dist. prof. emeritus) Tudor-Stuart England; marjorie.mcintosh@colorado.edu
Phillips, George H. (PHD, UCLA, 1973; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) Native American, Southwest;
Pittenger, Mark A. (PHD, Michigan, 1984; ; prof. emeritus) US intellectual and cultural; mark.pittenger@colorado.edu
Ruestow, Edward G. (PHD, Indiana, 1970; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) 17th- and 18th-century Europe, science; edward.ruestow@colorado.edu
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